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Election Methods articles on Democracy Chronicles

This election methods reform section will highlight alternatives to the widely used plurality voting system like approval, ranked and instant-runoff voting. See our entire section called Voting Methods Central. Also see our section on American democracy.

California Top-Two Primaries Causing Multiple Controversies

October 17, 2012 by Adrian Tawfik Leave a Comment

Considering Oregon's Top Two Primary Elections

Small Parties and Independent Voters Frustrated With Experimental California Top-Two Primaries Law

Filed Under: American Democracy Originals Tagged With: American State Elections, Election Methods, Independent Politicians, Third Party

Against Arizona’s Proposition 121, a Flawed “Top-Two” Primary

October 16, 2012 by Richard Fobes 1 Comment

Election Method Reformer Richard Fobes Urges No Vote on Arizona Top-Two Primary

Anyone in Arizona who wants fairer election results should vote against Arizona’s Proposition 121, learn about vote-splitting, and look at the Declaration of Election-Method Reform Advocates to see which election-method reforms are supported by election-method experts

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: American State Elections, Election Methods, Independent Politicians, Third Party

What All Third Parties Can Agree On

October 11, 2012 by Roger Copple Leave a Comment

Democracy Going Gone Champion

Third Parties Can Agree: A Unique Call For Third Parties to Unite For Reform of Election System

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Election Methods, Independent Politicians, Republicans, Third Party

Approval/Score Voting Details: Support for Defecting Faction

October 4, 2012 by Michael Ossipoff Leave a Comment

James Madison worried about political factions

What Would be the Worst Scenario Using the Approval and Score Voting Method? A Defecting Faction.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Election Methods, Third Party

Democracy in Theatre: The Ice-Cream Flavor War

October 1, 2012 by Richard Fobes 6 Comments

Ice-Cream Flavor Drawing by Brian Crabaugh

To help people better understand vote-splitting, and how this unfairness can be overcome, I wrote The Ice-Cream-Flavor War. A performance of it gives the audience the experience of seeing vote splitting in action, and seeing how pairwise counting can overcome that unfairness.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Election Methods, France, Political Artwork, Polling

INTERVIEW: Writer Discusses Election Reform and New Website

September 27, 2012 by Adrian Tawfik Leave a Comment

Writer Discusses Election Reform Website

Writer Discusses Election Reform And Calls For Deep Changes to Elections Across the World – Thanks to augustin, founder of minguo.info, for taking part here

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Democracy Charity, Election Methods, Polling, Taiwan

Strategy for Approval and Score Election Methods

September 24, 2012 by Michael Ossipoff 12 Comments

Independent political cartoon

Approval and Score Elections: An Organized Way of Thinking About Election Methodologies

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Election Methods

Possibility of Nightmare Election Scenario Worries Activists

September 21, 2012 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

They Used to be Able to do This

Presidential Nightmare Election Could End in Some Very Undemocratic Ways That Reveal Deep System Flaws

Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: Election Methods

A Computer Program For Counting ICT in Pseudocode

September 10, 2012 by Michael Ossipoff Leave a Comment

Direct Democracy or Representative Voting Conditions Election Methods.jpg

Counting ICT in Pseudocode: A Proposal For ICT in Computer Programming Language

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Election Methods, Polling

New Approval Poll Strategy Based On the First Poll

September 9, 2012 by Michael Ossipoff 6 Comments

The political campaigns

Michael Ossipoff Examines Strategy Options For DC’s New Approval Poll

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Election Methods, Green Party News, Libertarian Party News, Polling, Third Party

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